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Sean | August 31, 2011

Quick App Tip #9: BeatMaker 2: Repeated and Copied Patterns

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Every region belongs to a pattern, a group of identical regions. If you edit any region of a pattern with more than one region, changes will be made to all other regions of the same pattern. The number in the upper left hand corner of every region tells you what pattern it belongs to.The BeatMaker 2 sequencer has two ways of duplicating a region: copying, and repeating. Repeating a region makes an identical region, part of the same pattern as the original. Copying a region creates a new region, identical to its original, but belonging to a new pattern. All regions created using the copy button will be colored a slightly lighter shade that the original…

If you need more help BeatMaker 2 help, check out the official manual (PDF). App manuals (list) are a great place to go for help.

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Category: BeatMaker 2, quick tips, sequencer apps |

Sean | August 31, 2011

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Win $500 in the polychord Video Contest!

“Film a polychord video, and enter to win $500. On October 15th, 2011, the highest ranked video will be picked as the winner.”

Sounds like fun! Get the full details here.

Category: polychord |

Sean | August 30, 2011

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Two Synths Sounding Simultaneously Via App to App MIDI Collaboration Really Opens the Door…

polychord & Sunrizer (BETA) playing together from Shoulda Woulda Coulda on Vimeo.

Another app to app MIDI collaboration idea previewed on the Shoulda Woulda Coulda Vimeo Channel. This time, we’ve got one app controlling another, but with both of them sounding. Obviously, this will be useful if you want two tones sounding at the same time. But, you could get creative with the controls offerend in each synth app and come up with all kinds of new sounds. For example, turning the decay up on one synth, and down on the other would cause one of them to sound until you release, and the other to die quickly after you play; like the two synths sounded in the video. Considering all of the types of tones you an get out of a synth app like Sunrizer, this opens the door to tons of possibilities!

Video Description:
“If you’ve been following our recent videos (vimeo.com/27918905) you know that pretty soon a lot of your music apps are going to start working together. We got our hands on a beta copy of Sunrizer, which will add support for virtual MIDI. In this video, we improvise a little song with polychord, using both apps at the same time.”

polychord at the
Sunrizer Synth at the

Category: ios midi app to app collaboration, polychord, sunrizer synth, video |

Sean | August 27, 2011

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iOS Music Making on Twitter

There’re a lot of iOS music developers and blogs on Twitter; 128 to be exact (link to Twitter list). The point of this post is to get that number even bigger. I recommend Twitter to everyone, weather you’re a developer promoting your app, a blogger promoting your blog, a iOS musician with questions, or just looking to chat about your favorite app, create an account and start tweeting! It’s loads of fun, and a great way to stay up to date with the iOS music scene…